@article{2019,title={OTTOMAN-GREEK NAVY CONFLICT: SULTAN OSMAN AND REŞADIYE SHIPS},abstractNode={In this study, the activities and competition to increase the naval power between the Ottoman Empire and Greece were evaluated before the First World War. We tried to contribute to the subject of working with the archives of the period, archive documents and copyright researches. In the early 1900s, the world's most powerful states were the ones which have the most powerful navies. The battles such as the Ottoman-Russian War, the Balkan Wars, the Tripoli War, and the Ottoman Empire in the last period of the Ottoman Empire showed that the biggest coup began to come from the sea. The defeat in the Balkan War made the Ottoman Empire feel a strong need for navy. The Navy Association was established for this purpose and carried out the ship purchase activities with the donations collected from the public. In 1911, Reşadiye battleship was ordered to Vickers Company in England and Vasıf Bey had been appointed as commander of the ship. Two armored Fatih and Sultan Osman were added to the order given to England in 1912. In this period, a battleship had already been ordered by Brazil from Armstrong, which was located in New Castel in England. Brazil did not pay the money and give up getting the ship named Rio De Janerio, when the Ottoman government asked for the ship and named it as Sultan Osman. An agreement was made in 1914 and 1912 for the reintegration of Reşadiye and Sultan Osman battleships in 1914. The Ottoman Empire asked the British military engineers to report for ships through Tevfik Pasha, but the UK had delayed the delivery of ships with various excuses. Against this attack of the Ottoman Empire, Greece had also taken action to buy two battleships from America. The Greek government had tried to strengthen its position against the Ottomans by purchasing two ships, namely, İdahu and the Mississippi. He also ordered the dreadnought named Selamin from Germany. On August 1, 1914, the Ottoman Empire sent the last installment of the ships, which were gathered with a thousand difficulties from the people through the embassy. When the Austro-Hungarian heir in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 was killed by a Serb, this incident led to the beginning of the First World War. Upon this development, the British government announced the seizure of these ships, which were ordered by the Ottoman Empire. Not only these two ships, but also the other equipment, which was agreed and not yet purchased, were announced by the British government. Although this situation was protested by the Ottoman Empire, no result could be obtained. Despite the fact that the war had not actually emerged and declared neutral, the Ottoman Empire was subjected to a negative diplomatic policy against the states such as Russia, England, USA and Greece. In this process, the two ships that were paid in advance for the reinforcement of the naval power and especially the naval power of the Ottoman Empire were not returned with various excuses.},author={Özlem YILDIRIM KIRIŞ},year={2019},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}